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The Basics
| | Thomas, Lewis. The Medusa and the Snail.
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| | Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
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| | Montaigne, Michel de. Montaigne's Essays. Penguin.
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| | Confucius, The Analects of Confucius.
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| | Confucius, The Analects of Confucius.
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| | Bronowski, Jacob. Magic, Science and Civilization.
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| | Seneca, Lucius. Letters from a Stoic.
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More Basics
| | Durant, Will and Ariel. The Lessons of History.
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| | Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays of Montaigne. Stanford.
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| | Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness.
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Rounding out a life
| | Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man.
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| | Cousineau, Phillip. Once and Future Myths.
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| | Durant, Will. The Greatest Minds of all Time.
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| | Fadiman, Clifton. The Lifetime reading Plan. Crowell.
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| | Loon, Hendrik Willem. Lives.
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Useful Fiction
| | Bolt, Robert. A Man for all Seasons.
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| | Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones.
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| | Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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| | Stephens, James. The Crock of Gold.
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| | Swift. Gulliver's Travels.
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| | Wolfe, Tobias. Old School.
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H. L. Mencken
| | Dorsey, John, ed. On Mencken.
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| | Fecher, Charles A. Mencken, A Study of his Thoughts.
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| | Fecher, Charles A., ed. The Diary of H.L. Mencken.
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| | Mencken, H.L. A Choice of Days. Vintage.
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| | Mencken, H.L. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Vintage.
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| | Teachout, Terry. The Skeptic.
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Classics
| | Homer. The Odyssey. Penguin.
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| | Homer. The Illiad. Penguin.
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| | Hoffmann, E.T.A. Tales of Hoffmann.
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| | Kitto, H. D. F. The Greeks.
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| | Theophrastus. Characters.
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| | ----. Greek and Roman Classics. Monarch Notes.
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History
| | Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life.
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| | Braudel, Fernand. The Wheels of Commeerce.
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| | Braudel, Fernand. The Perspective of the World.
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| | Braudel, Fernand. On History.
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| | Bronowski, Jacob and Mazlish, Bruce. The Western Intellectual Tradition.
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| | Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy.
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| | Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Modern Library.
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| | Smith. Page, The Shaping of America.
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| | Van Loon, Hendrik Willem. The Story of Mankind.
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Economics
| | Buchholz, Todd G. New Ideas from Dead Economists.
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| | Gardner, David and Tom. The Motley Fool Investment Guide.
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| | Gardner, John. On Moral Fiction.
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| | Osborne, David, and Gaebler, Ted. Reinventing Government.
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| | ----. A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
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Philosophy
| | Bahm, Archie J. The Heart of Confucius.
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| | Strathen, Paul. Confucius in 90 Minutes.
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| | Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh.
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| | La Rochefoucauld, Maxims.
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Religion
| | -----. The Book of Common Prayer.
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| | Armstrong, Karen. A History of God.
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| | Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God.
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| | Armstrong., Karen. Islam.
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| | Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old Testament.
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| | Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The New Testament.
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| | Barker. Everyone in the Bible.
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| | Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam.
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| | Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels.
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| | Said, Edward W. Culture and Resistance.
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Character
| | Lickona, Thomas. Educating Character.
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Other
| | Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt.
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| | Cooke, Alistaire. America Observed.
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| | Lowenthal, Marvin. The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne.
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| | Mitchell, Richard. Leaning Tower of Babel.
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| | Reid, T.R. Confucius Lives Next Door.
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| | Seldes, George. The Great Thoughts.
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| | -----. The nature of the Chinese Character.
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